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Business and Government

Business and Government

For corporations “closing the Divide” became a matter of core business, not CSR. To find out why, go here. For governments, “closing the Digital Divide” now means disrupting the entrenched interests the surround unproductive state-owned enterprises. To find why, go here.

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May 22 , 2013

Achieving “Political Will” : The factor that most keeps citizens from receiving the benefits of the internet is not what you’d imagine – not lack of investment capital, not corruption, not weak infrastructure. That stuff is fixable or can be circumvented. A deeper problem is that most governments are led by officials who lack political will to implement their own roadmaps for bringing broadband to the masses. Read More

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